Posted
by
CowboyNealon Saturday June 16, 2007 @12:50PM
from the watching-the-watchmen dept.

Spamicles writes "A judge has ordered the FBI to release agency records about its abuse of National Security Letters (NSLs) to collect Americans' personal information. The ruling came just a day after the EFF urged the judge to immediately respond in its lawsuit over agency delays. This is the same case in which an internal FBI audit found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years."

Normally, I'd write a deeper post, but this warrants this instead:
*Dances for joy*
Granted, this is still a far cry from those documents being released. Documents disappear, or hell, the FBI just ignores the ruling. Wouldn't be the first time.

Really, I don't understand how the FBI could "ignore" a ruling. I would think that the judge would respond by naming specific individuals at the FBI, like the Director, and holding them in contempt and in jail, in perpetuity, until compliance occurs.